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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Assume you can't. Reasonable people can, it seems to me, differ about abortion.
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Why? What is your basis for concluding this? Please walk me through your analysis that caused you to arrive at this conclusion.
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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I don't know anyone who isn't bothered by the idea of an abortion. If you aren't, something is wrong with you, IMHO.
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You need to mingle with the common folk more. There are people who view abortion as another means of birth control and are only bothered by the cost of the procedure.
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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
There is a substantive difference in that feti physically depend on another, and slaves didn't.
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And babies don't "physically depend" on "another"? Try throwing one in a dumpster and see how long it can live without "another."
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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I don't think reasonable people can differ about whether slaves were people.
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I agree, but I still don't understand how you arrived at your conclusion that reasonable people can differ about whether feti are people.